English trainning

UNIT 11 : NATIONAL PARKS

A. READING
Befor you read

Work with a partner. Answer the following questions.
1. Have you ever been to a national park?
2.Can you name some of the national parks in Vietnam and in the world?
3.What trees and animals can you see in a national park?

While you read
Read the passages, and then do the tasks that follow.

Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam
Cuc Phuong National Park 160 kilometers from Hanoi toward the southwest. It is the first park in the 9 national parks in Vietnam was established and it covers 200 square kilometers of rainforest. Tourists come here to study butterflies, visit caves, hiking in the mountains and see the 000-year-old tree 1. The best time to visit the park is in the dry season, from October to April. when the rainy season ended.

Nairobi National Park, Kenya
Nairobi National Park is the smallest park of Nairobi, but you're probably surprised at the wide variety of animals that live here. Visitors, especially children. can come here to learn to recognize the different types of animals and plants together how. They also learned about the habits of animals and how a species dependent on a different category of how to survive. An interesting characteristic of this park is the Orphanage. where people take care of many animals orphaned or abandoned.

Everglades National Park, USA
Everglades National Park is a subtropical wilderness in the southeastern United States. This national park especially because it has the flora and fauna of both temperate and tropical regions. Because of population growth and the use of land adjacent to farming, there are many levels of toxic chemicals in the water. This pollution threatens many animal parks and which.

Task 1Find the word in the passage that best suits each of the following definitions.

1. E
stablish to start an organization that is intended to continue for a long time
2. ...........................
 to have something inside

3. ...........................A group / groups of animals or plants
4. ...........................a state of continuing to live or exist
5. ...........................related to an area near a tropical area

6. ........................... A state of being polluted.

Task 2Answer the following questions.
1. What is the area of the rainforest in Cuc Phuong National park?
2. Why would November be a suitable time to visit park?
3. What can people learn in Nairobi National Park?
4. What kinds of animals are taken care of in the Orphanage?
5. Why is Everglades National Park endangered?
6. What do you think will happen to Everglades National park if more chemicals are released into the water?

After you read 

Discuss in groups. Which of the three national parks would you like to visit most? Why?
B. SPEAKING 
Task 1Last week Nga’s class went on an excursion to Huong Pagoda, Unfortunately, the excursion turned out to be a disaster. Most of the things they did went wrong. Combine the things in column A with corresponding consequences in column B and read out the sentences.
 A B
 1.They went by coach.
 2. 
They did not bring enough food and drinks.
 3. 
Some had food poisoning.
 4. 
They had no raincoats.
 5. 
Some left their luggage on the coach when they arrived.
 6.
Some were not careful when walking in Huong Pagoda.
 7.
Some threw waste in the forest.
 8.They stayed there only one day.
 a. they got a fine.
 b. 
they had no clothes or money with them.
 c. they got lost.
 d. 
 they couldn’t visit all the pagodas.
 e. 
they had to spend a lot of money ealing in expensive restaurants.
 f. most of them got carsick.
 g. 
they got wet and some got a cold.
 h. they didn't enjoy their visit.


Task 2Most of the students in Nga’s class are not happy with their excursion to Huong Pagoda. Now they are talking about what they wish they had or hadn't done.

Examples:-If we hadn't gone by coach, we wouldn’t have got carsick.
-If we had gone by bike, we wouldn’t have got carsick.
Continue their talk, using the ideas in Task1.

Task 3You are Nga. Work with a partner. Tell her / him about your class’excursion to Huong Pagoda and express your regrets about what you did or did not do during the excursion.

C.LISTENING 
Before you listen
  • Work in groups. Ask and answer the following questions.
1.Where is Cuc Phuong National Park?
2.What is the area of the rainforest in Cuc Phuong National Park?
3.When is the best time to visit Cuc Phuong National Park?
4.What can be seen in Cuc Phuong National Park?
While you listen
Task 1Listen and fill in the missing information.
t. Cuc Phuong National Park was officially opened in.....................................
2. Cuc Phuong is located....................................... Hanoi.
3. In 2002, nearly ................... visited Cuc Phuong.
4. There are ....................... different species of flora and ...................... species of fauna.
5. Nguyen Hue's army was stationed in Quen Voi before it made its........................................... on Thang Long

Task 2Listen again and answer the following questions.

1.How many provinces does Cuc Phuong National Park belong to?
2. How far is it from Hanoi to Cuc Phuong?
3.What do many people come to Cuc Phuong for?
4.When did Nguyen Hue defeat the Qing invaders?
5.What do the Muong ethnic minority in Cuc Phuong live mainly on?
After you listen
Work in groups. Talk about the special features of Cuc Phuong National Park.
D. WRITTING 
Write a letter of acceptance or refusal

Task 1Below are some common ways of accepting or refusing an invitation. Read them. and fill in each blank of the notes with a suitable expression.

                                    Ways of accepting                                       Ways of refusing 
  Yes. I’d like , love to.
  Yes, that's a great idea.
  Yes, I'd be delighted to.
  I'm afraid I can't come because ...
  I'd love to, but ...
  I'm sorry I can't (come) because ..
.

Task 2Rearrange the following sentences to make a letter accepting an invitation to spend a weekend in the country.

Dear Nam 
a. ..... You know how much i love spending a weekend in the country after a long and hard term.
b. ..... Give my best regards to your parents and hope to see you soon.
c. ..... I would really like to come. 
d. ..... Thank you for your letter.
e. ..... It's lovely to gear that you are going to spend the next weekend in the country.
f.  ..... I will catch the usual train on Friday evening.

Love,
Lam

Task 3. One of your friends has invited you to go for a picnic to Cuc Phuong National Park next weekend. Write a reply letter accepting or declining his / her invitation. 

E. LANGUAGE FOCUS

  •  Pronunciation: [ t ] - [ d ]
  • GrammarConditional sentence type 3

Grammar and vocabulary

Exercise 1: Complete the following sentences, using the correcl form of the verbs in brackets.
Exercise:
I would have sent you a post card if I .............. (have) your address. 
I would have sent you a postcard if had had your address.
1. If I ............ (know) that you were ill last week, I would have gone to see you. 
2. I would have bought a new bicycle if I ............ (have) enough money.
3. If had had a motorbike, I .................... (go) home immediately. 
4. If he had worked hard, he ........................... (pass) his examination. 

Exercise 2: Write a sentence with if for each situation.
Exercise: 
I wasn't hungry, so I did't eat anything.
If I had ..............................
If had been hungry, I would have eaten something.
 
1. The accident  happened because the driver in front stopped so suddenly.
If the driver in front hadn’t ...............................
2. I did't know that Lam had to get up early, so I didn't wake him.
If Mary hadn't .................................
3. I was able to buy the car only because Hoa lent me the money.

If Hua hadn't .............................

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